Tag: sociocracy
Shared Power Week 2024
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Shared Power Week, from September 12-20, is a global, multi-lingual festival celebrating sociocracy and inclusive governance. Join change-makers to learn, train, and experience transformative practices. Participate or organize events worldwide.
A case study of a community-based research program: The Hawai’i Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities
This article explores the ambitious implementation of sociocracy within the Hawai’i Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities Program (HiCSC), an initiative funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Climate Smart Commodities Program involving a broad consortium of university academic and community-based organizations across Hawai’i.
Dividing Up Work and Decision-Making for Effective Teams
The question of group size With the world’s issues and complexity rising, the number of people who need to collaborate to address an issue gets bigger and bigger. The higher […]
Permaculture Community of Practice
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SoFA’s new Permaculture Community of Practice, where permaculture and/or sociocracy practitioners support each other by sharing questions, ideas, resources, and experiences.
Sociocracy vs Holacracy: what are the similarities and differences between them?
This is an attempt to map out the sameness and differences between sociocracy and Holacracy. These are small, yet – depending on your values – significant.
Exploring Self Governance in the Fediverse: A discussion about decision making among a federated ensemble
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Join us for a sociocratically facilitated discussion on decision-making in Fediverse-connected organizations!
How to have quick meetings that don’t waste time
Meeting time is precious, so it’s a matter of respect to be clear about our intentions first. And the good news is there’s a framework that makes this easy.
Membership in Organizations as a Source of Clarity
When working on a project with a group, it is important to know who is responsible for making decisions. Establishing different concepts of membership (such as social membership and governing membership) helps people understand their role and how they are contributing to the group.
The myth of natural flow
“Why do we need a format to speak? Can’t we just talk naturally?!” What feels “natural” or fair to people in meetings is deeply impacted by informal power structures and biases. Fair meetings require intentional formats.
The tragedy of the meeting: Meeting time as an example of a common pool resource
Meeting time is lifetime shared with others. How do we share these resources well? This article highlights Prosocial’s Core Design Principles with the example of meeting time as a common pool resource and shows how tools from sociocracy help share time in a collaborative way.
